Senior Hardware Engineer (Dutch speaking)

EU Labour migration & Policy; Delft; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Profit sharing

MacBook/PC provided

Vacation + pension

Commuter support

Office culture

Team events

Job summary

EU Labour migration & Policy is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to own architecture from concept to mass production for a Europe-wide smart energy hardware ecosystem. You’ll shape hardware design, work with ODMs/CMs, and drive production readiness.

You’ll lead architecture decisions, collaborate with firmware teams, ensure compliance, and mentor engineers in a fast-growing IoT context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on hardware development in consumer electronics or IoT.
• Experience taking products from concept to mass manufacturing with external ODMs/CMs.
• Strong knowledge of RF, EMC/EMI, and regulatory compliance (CE/RED).
• Proven ability to define architectures and design high-layer hardware.
• Experience working with firmware lifecycles and integration.

Responsibilities

• Define hardware architectures for new IoT devices and design multi-layer PCBs.
• Drive NPI to mass production and collaborate with CMs/ODMs on DFM/DFT.
• Lead regulatory compliance efforts and liaise with test labs.
• Establish hardware development processes, version control, and testing plans.
• Mentor engineers, review designs, and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Architecture ownership

Embedded hardware

RF optimization

Mentorship

DFM/DFT

EMI/EMC knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

RF test equipment

EMC/EMI tooling

Job description

Help Over 1 Million Households Save Energy with Next-Gen Smart Hardware

We are a fast-growing, innovative tech scale-up on a mission to empower everyday people to take control of their energy consumption, cut household costs, and shrink their carbon footprint. From smart energy meters to display units and plug-in battery systems, we design, engineer, and build our entire hardware ecosystem in-house.

We are looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer who wants to take full technical ownership of product architecture—from concept to high-volume production—and build reliable hardware used by over 1,000,000 homes across Europe.

If you thrive on complete technical responsibility, pragmatism, and building tangible IoT products that make a real-world environmental impact, this is your place to shine.

What You’ll Do

As Senior Hardware Engineer, you hold end-to-end responsibility for the hardware core of our smart energy product lines. You won't just follow specs—you will define architectures, make critical design choices, and set engineering quality standards across the team.

• Architecture & PCB Design: Define hardware architecture for new IoT devices. Design schematics and multi-layer PCBs, select components, and strike the right balance between performance, unit cost, and supply chain availability.
• Embedded & RF Optimization: Develop hardware around modern embedded microcontrollers (e.g., Espressif/ESP32). Optimize the interplay between RF performance, antenna choice, power management, and firmware.
• Concept to Mass Production: Drive products through NPI to full-scale manufacturing. Work closely with contract manufacturers (CMs/ODMs) on DFM/DFT, yield optimization, test fixture development, and quality assurance.
• Process & Quality Standards: Professionalize the hardware development lifecycle—establishing clear version control, documentation standards, test/validation plans, and smooth integration with firmware lifecycles.
• Compliance & Certification: Lead regulatory compliance (CE, Radio Equipment Directive / RED) and act as the primary technical interface for test labs.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and coach team members, review technical designs, and raise the bar for hardware engineering across the company.

What You Bring

You take pride and ownership in your designs. You naturally think ahead: How will this scale in production? How does this interact with firmware? Will this design hold up in 5 years?

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of hands‑on hardware development experience, ideally in consumer electronics or high-volume IoT devices.
• Embedded Hardware Expertise: Proven expertise with embedded CPUs/SoCs and working closely with firmware lifecycle teams.
• RF & Compliance Knowledge: Practical experience resolving EMI/EMC challenges and navigating CE / RED compliance.
• Lifecycle Ownership: Experience taking products from initial whiteboard design through DFM/DFT to mass manufacturing with external ODMs/CMs.
• Mindset: Pragmatic, detail-oriented, with strong technical conviction and the communication skills to mentor others.

What Is Offered

Here, you won't encounter endless corporate bureaucracy. We build fast, test directly, and give engineers complete technical freedom and ownership over their products.

• Competitive Salary: €4,500 – €5,500 gross per month (based on experience).
• Profit Sharing: Direct share in company success and profit-sharing schemes.
• Work Gear: Top-tier MacBook or Windows laptop + free smart home hardware for home testing and usage.
• Vacation & Savings: 25 days paid leave (full-time basis), 8% holiday allowance, option to purchase extra leave days, and a company-contributed pension plan.
• Commuter Support: Travel allowance starting from 10 km.
• Great Office Culture: Daily company lunch, fresh fruit, healthy snacks, and monthly catered team lunches.
• Team Events: Quarterly social/sports events, monthly Friday drinks, summer BBQs, and annual celebrations.

Work Environment

In our R&D center, hardware, embedded software, backend, and app teams work together under one roof. We strongly believe physical collaboration is essential for hardware development—enabling rapid debugging, immediate hardware testing, and short feedback loops.